Quotes About Planning

There's a popular image of people who don't save for the future as lacking in self-control. But the reason saving is so hard has less to do with self-control and more to do with a scarcity of attention.

When you're on a Soyuz flight, you know that when you go to Russia, you're going to do X, Y, and Z. You have that plan already laid out.

Meetings with no goal, also known as 'coffee shop' meetings, can be huge time wasters if you're not efficient with them. 'Always know why you're meeting, and make sure it's important - try to keep them to 30 minutes, max.

I like to have meetings in the early afternoon.

I'm always thinking and so even if I'm not on the golf course I'm mentally thinking.

Read over your existing business plan like you read the menu at your favorite restaurant.

I am methodical to the point of being obsessive-compulsive. And I have always been good at multi-tasking.

I am methodical about my email inbox, and I always have a physical to-do list. Without those two things, I think I'd lose my mind.

My father was very methodical about life. He'd always ask me, 'Now, what's your system? What's your schedule like?' I have no big system, no rigid schedule. When he would ask, 'How do you do this? Give it to me step by step,' I'd try to convince him that there were no step-by-steps.

What I learned in 'Sons' is that I would come in with a blueprint of a season and how it would go, and I realized that the looser my grip was, the better it became because the story found itself. Things happened as I wanted them to in terms of the bigger mile markers, but the fun part was I never knew how we would get there.

Don't plan to drive more than 300 miles a day.

I am a businessman at the end of the day. I have grown up with Excel sheets. I start out writing my novel with spreadsheets and the milestones in each chapter highlighted.

I know I'm intellectually capable of finding a series of things and making hundreds of millions. I have to get there and do it. Carefully. Legally.

If I were a strategically minded person, I think I would have a far different career.

If the only way you can build an emergency fund is to pay the minimum due on your credit card, that is what you need to do.

I think three-to-five years ahead minimum. I have a short-term plan, a five-year plan and a decade plan.

It's sometimes impossible to fit in all the music we want to fit in, in an hour and 45 minute show.

The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.

We refer to these companies' all-in approaches in multiple ways—"AI fueled," "AI powered," "AI enabled," etc. The common thread is that they are at the far end of the scale in their spending, planning, strategizing, implementing, and changing with regard to AI technology.

whilst her chief plan for relieving herself of her diurnal labours lay in postponing them

What if he had taken full advantage of the tax-advantaged benefit from the time he was first employed? Today he would be a millionaire. Instead, he is on the perpetual earn-and-consume treadmill.

Operate your household like a productive business.

There is an inverse relationship between the time spent purchasing luxury items such as cars and clothes and the time spent planning one's financial future.

Mrs. Rule wants to be free of financial worry before her sixty-fifth birthday. Each time she tabulates, she tells herself she is reducing her fear of never being able to retire in comfort.